I have pup4.1 and that prog requires seamonkey 2.0 ( i have 1.1) and the firfox version required is 3.0- and pup-get only has a 2.? version , i have been reading for the past couple nights about setting up a MYSQL DB and PHP and have read this post
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37109

and have tested hiawatha but now i am trying se if there is a native solution to MySql , i SQLite3 mentioned but cannot find it under PETget, but i see puppybasic2 is installed ......im just getting more and more confued ...ill get it sorted

I have the XPI installed in FF3 on Windoze. Note that it can't diddle the place.sqlite file FF3 uses to store boomarks, as that file is locked while in use by FF, but it can investigate and diddle other SQLite DB files.
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Dennis

I have pup4.1 and that prog requires seamonkey 2.0 ( i have 1.1) and the firfox version required is 3.0- and pup-get only has a 2.? version

That's because Firefox 3 and Seamonkey 2 use an SQLite database to store bookmarks instead of bookmarks.html, and use SQLite databases for a few other things. The XPI would be pointless in FF 2 or SM 1.

There's a pet for Firefox 3.03 here at puppylinux.ca, , and you can get SM 2.0 alpha 2 for Linux from Mozilla here.
(It runs on Puppy 4.12 here.)

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but now i am trying se if there is a native solution to MySql , i SQLite3 mentioned but cannot find it under PETget, but i see puppybasic2 is installed ......

Hi
on Toutou4.1.2 k2.6.25.16 frugal / (= french translation of Puppy 4.1.2)
I installed tksqlite 0.4.5 from the Pet Manager (from Puppy3 list; there isn't any in Puppy 4 pet list) ;
the dependencies were automatically installed one after the other;
I restarted jwm and X;
There is well a menu entry under 'Personal';
but it won't work ..?
I have made the dependencies check: they 'seems' all being installed.

Can somebody give me some help?

Thanks in advance
Cheers
Charlie

update Ooupss ! Now my question is solved ! Please, just disregard it.
Having a look at the previous posts from the beginning I notice that tile-0.7.8.pet was missing ...Just had to load it from the pet manager, restart jwm and X and it is done.

I 'll now try to use that database with abiword to perform Mail merge.

Not enough 'many thanks!' to all the developpers (of Puppy and also its french translation 'Toutou') for such a nice tool !
Cheers
Charlie

re-update ...again...too fast spoken!
trying to open sqlite2_test.db (or sqlite3_test.db) I get a message asking

I don't know much about databases but I recall people using portabase or treeline as very simple database software on the Zaurus pda.
Both require Qt. No Sqlite. They are available also on the desktop. Very user friendly apps.

Thanks, scheck.r - treeline needs Python which kinda defeats the Puppy ethic, but portabase looks interesting. I have downloaded the tarball and will attempt a compile in Puppy. If successful I'll post the dotpet result here. At 256kb the download looks distinctly promising if QT is the only dependency.

The thread was really aimed at getting a fully-relational database for Puppy, but something this small might be enough for most people IF it is easier to use than TkSQlite for example.

Update: Compile from source failed due to missing directory but I downloaded the debian binary and that works. I have repacked as a dotpet here. Small, quick and relatively easy to use IMHO. Surprising how much it can do for such a little app. Good find, scheck.r

Thanks for this one, I downloaded it today and spent three-quarters of an hour or so converting my existing databases over so that Portabase could use them. I'm very impressed, it does everything I need from a database and is easy to understand and use.

A long time ago I wrote an integration application using unix text file tools (if I remember correctly it was under SGI IRIX 6.5). Everything worked well until some of the input data became arabic (unicode) characters .... it wasn't pretty let me tell you. I was new to the whole unicode thingy then.

Anyway: Before you read my following warning please bear in mind I admit that I did not look at the latest versions of /rdb, NoSQL and SHQL and such but:

/rdb, NoSQL and other similar tools all use to some the available unix text file utilities (which may or may not have problems supporting unicode fully) and you really want make sure that Unicode is properly supported before you put them into production (either for just for yourself or for others). All the the unix text databases were created in under old unix initially living in a pure ASCII world - so if you have Unicode data then TEST, TEST, TEST EVERYTHING!!!

If people find this post offensive because they feel stepped on their toes then I am sorry - this is most certainly not my intention.

Hello, I thought you guys might like to know that there's now an updated version of PortaBase available, 2.0 beta 1 (I'm the author). It's finally been ported to Qt 4, so it should be easier to install alongside modern software without dragging in ancient versions of Qt. Other changes are summarized on the history page. This beta version has a few minor regressions from 1.9 that were discovered after the release, but those have already been fixed in the Git repository. Let me know if you find any other problems with it, or have suggestions for improvement.

I really appreciate all the work you've done in putting together an open source personal database; there's absolutely nothing else out there for Linux which does the same job, and precious little for any other OS which does either (do you really want to have to power up Access just to be able to access your address book, for example, or your database of dialect words?).

I started a thread on the Vector Linux (which I also use) forum about Portabase, and one of the devs there has promised to have a go at building a Portabase package for that distro.

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